Service Oriented Architecture- introduction and tutorial

Well, go through these write-ups. But at any stage if it looks complicated, please get back to the discussions held in the class.

http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/pdfs/Services_Oriented_Architecture_from_Adobe.pdf

http://icec06.net/WorkshopsAndTutorials/SOATutorial/SOA-Tutorial.htm

OOSE and UML

OOSE

Following site contains useful Java tutorial with focus on object oriented programing concepts. Those interested can augment the OOSE concepts discussed in the class with this and apply them in their work.

http://72.5.124.55/docs/books/tutorial/java/index.html

UML

For UML resources following site is recommended

http://www.uml.org/

There are many groups working in this field and plenty of resources are available. Interested professionals may like to spend some time browsing through their activities and may like to be a part of some of them.

Database Normalization

Following is a simple article on database normalization.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283878